What happens if regular investors actually begin to buy individual stocks again . Its something we need to consider as the averages hit still one more alltime high records. Down gaining 66 points, s p advancing. 45 , nasdaq climbing. 64 . Another ton of statistics showing an almost inexorible decline in the interest in the stock market as a whole. There are entire outfits that exist to scare you out of picking stocks, telling you that its a fools game because of the dreaded singlestock risk. They say youre worried that you could buy a total loser and it would destroy your nest egg, which is why theyre so eager to sell you this night etf that will sell you the both winners and loser. But theres something afoot now, after nine straight sessions where the nasdaq has rallied a total of 4. 7 , theres something going on, at least anecdotally these days when im stopped on the street by random passersby, im beginning to get actual questions about lots of individual stocks again. Not hows the m
Is this ok . Francine its fancy. Its perfect. Tom we have eight things to talk about at the start of the show. You mentioned the e. U. In your opening. Were oblivious to this. This turkey my deprant discussion, im sorry, for all of europe, its the only topic this weekend. Francine it is, because it goes really to the heart of what europe is. As soon as that gets into question, the eurozone can close. Tom well, there we go. We got so much to talk about today, jobs take. Francine lets get to the bloomberg first review. Thanks, francine. Donald trump was on the defensive during last nights republican president ial debate. Hours after 201 nominee mitt romney called him a phoney and a fraud, the current proper candidates took their shots. Heres marco rubio. Senator rubio theres no doubt approximate that. These also say 2 3 of the people that cast the vote have voted against you. They do not want you to be our nominee. And the reason why is because we are not going to turf over the conservat
Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up called tom rush who played here at the cellar door, and he played in boston at the 47. I really pattern myself after, just a guy with a guitar, full position, unapologetic. Falcon musician. Unapologetic folk musician. And i would say wouldtwo and the beatles. What do you think of current pop music . You know, i guess i do not like it a whole lot. [laughter] [applause] i guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i do
Political analyst juan williams. Washington juren live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. The senate runches for legislative business on thursday and the house has a proform asession scheduled that day. The first would extend provisions of the fisa act. The other is a pack abbling for areas affected by hurricane sandy. You can follow live coverage of the senate on cspan2. And house members are on stand by as negotiations continue over the socalled fiscal cliff. Now a conversation on hollywoods portrayal of politics and policy making in movies and tv shows. Among those well hear from the crete or the of the show homeland. This is an hour 20 minutes. Good evening again. Welcome back to the forum. Im not the one youll be applauding for. You know we have public events, Public Forums in our headquarters campus about once a month. And weve had former president s and Foreign Ministers and ambassadors and please chiefs. We have never, to my knowledge, had anybody who has ever created, l
But that has always been part of the bargaining. You get these urban lawmakers to vote for the farm bill in part because of all the benefits that come to their poorer constituents. This really would be no way to get a farm bill done at all if you did not have these lawmakers from more populated more densely Populated Areas on board because of the food stamps. As we close out here, it is worth observing what senator stabenow said. Farm policy is not arcane. Thank you for being here this week to ask questions of the incoming chairman of the Senate Agriculture committee. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] tamara, it changes to the u. S. Tax code as the passage of the bill. And a look at what is in the fiscal cliff litigation. J hancocks talks about the casses and fees americans face in 2013 as part of the Affordable Care act. I tend to think there is a flareup of low hanging fruit that is appealing to